Padlock



CIV

Patented Mar. 23, 1926.

.unirse STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES LEDIN, OF STAMFORD, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE YALE & TOWNE MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF'STAMFORD, CONNECTICUT.

PADLOCK.

Application filed June 23, 1.924. I Serial No. 721,865.

To all whom it may concern.'

Be it known that I, CHARLES LEDIN, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Stamford, in the county of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Padlocks; and l do hereby decla-re the following to he a full, ciear, and exact description of the invention, such Will enable others skilled in the art to Which it appertains to make :1nd use the same.

yThis invention relates to improvements in imdiocl's,-one object of the. invention bee lng vto construct the casing of a padlock in urli manner that danger of driving out the cel; mechanism and a casing closure by umlicious pounding on a part of the casing opposite such casing closure, Will -he miniF nized.

lilith this and other objects in view, the invention consists in certain novel features of construction and combinations of parts as hereinafter set forth and pointed out in the :iaims lin the accompanying drawing,-

Figure 1 is a transverse sectional view showing an armored casing and illustrating an embodiment of my invention,

Figures 2, 3, #i and 5 are sectional vievvs showing modifications of the armored casand i igure 6 is a face view.

My improved padlock casing includes a casing member 1 which, in the present instance, is circular or annular and may be made of any suitable metal, such as 1nalleable iron or bronze, for example. Both sides ot the casing member 1 i'nay be open as shown iu. Figure 1 and may be formed with seats forthe edge portions of the end plates 55 3 of lock frame. The casing member l. is also formed at each side With circular seats 6, offset from the circular frame-plate seats 2, for the accommodation of the peripheral portions of armor face plates T--T which Will preferably be made of hardened steel and may be concavo-convex and caused to engage the frame plates 3. The armor plates may be held in place by means of veneer or iinish plates 8-8, Which latter cover the armor plates and may be secured to the casing member 1 by having their peripheral beveled portions sprung into undercut circular recesses or .seats 9 in the casing member l.

By armoringl the casing as above described, danger of .driving out the loch mechanism and a easing closure by malicious pounding on a part ofthe casing opposite such casing closure, will be reduced to a minimum.

Instead ofprovding armor closures for bot-h sidesvof the casing, one side 10 of the casing may be made solid or integral With the circular casing member 1, and the closure for the other side of the casing may consist of an armor plate 11 held permanently in place by a split ring 12 inserted into a peripheral groove 13 in the armor plate and permitted to expand into a circular groove 1li: in the casing member 1, as

shown in Figure 2.

in Figure 3, the back 15 of the casing is made integral with the casing member -1 and may be fiat and covered by a concave-convex veneer or finish plate 16 having a beveled peripheral edge entering an undercut seat 17 in the casing member 1. In this con struction, the opposite side of the casing is: closedby an armor plate 18, the peripheral edge of which is beveled and enters a circular undercut groove or seat 19 in the casing member 1.

Inthe construction shown in Figure d, one side 2O of the casing is made convex and integral with the casing member 1 and the other side of the casing is closed by a concavo-convex armor plate 21" Which is seated at its peripheral port-ion in the casing member 1 and held in place by spinning or swaging the edge or rim of the latter down over the plate.

In the formk shown in Figure 5, the side 2P, is made integral with the casing member 1 as in the form shown in Figure i and the armor plate 23 for the other side of the casing is provided with a beveled edge 2li and swaged or expanded into a circular groove or seat 25 formed in the casing member 1.

Having fully described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by LetterssPatent, is:

1. The combination with the casing of a padlock, of means to prevent rupture or drilling of said casing to disturb'the loci; means therein, said first mentioned means .consisting of al hardened steel armor on armor to an ontnf'ardly projecting' portion of the easing.

2. A padlock including a casing having an open side, la hardened 'steel armor plate seated n said casing' and closing` Said open side, and a nsh plate covering said hardened steel armor plate, Said finish plate permanently secured to the casing` and Securing said hardened steel armor plate in 1U place.

8. A padlock nehidng an annular casing; member, hardened steel armor plates seated in said casing member and closing respectvesde's of Vthe'casng; and nsh plates covering the respective hardened Steel armor plates and permanently secured to the casing' member.

In testimony whereof, have Signed this speccaton. e

' CHARLES LEDIN. 

